Visit the 2015 Beckman Institute Open House

Visit the 2015 Beckman Institute Open House on March 13-14!
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WHEN:
Friday, March 13, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 14, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The Beckman Institute Open House is a biennial event, held in conjunction with the University of Illinois College of Engineering Open House. Our open house exhibits highlig...

Over the past 25 years, researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois have made advances in neuroscience, materials science, physics, bioengineering, robotics, cognitive science, and many other areas of science and engineering.
This slide show presents a few of the historic milestones of the Beckman Institute and ... More Information →

Twin sisters Patty Jones and Cathy Murphy recall their early experiences making it in the worlds of chemistry and engineering and offer advice to young girls interested in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Cathy Murphy is a professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois and a member of the Beckman Institute's Nanoelectronics and Nanoma... More Information →

Camille Goudeseune shows how he turns low quality videos taken by a $50 toy quadcopter drone into amazing high-resolution panoramic photographs.
Goudeseune is a Computer Systems Analyst at the Beckman Institute's Illinois Simulator Lab at the University of Illinois and an avid radio-controlled aircraft enthusiast.
The quadcopter used to create the HD panorama photos in ... More Information →

Camille Goudeseune shows off how he turns low quality videos taken by a cheap toy helicopter into amazing high-resolution panoramic photographs.
Goudeseune turns the video collected by a $45 quadcopter into hundreds of still images that he digitally cleans and stitches together to form a single, stunning aerial panorama. Some of the locations he has captured include bot... More Information →

A plastic that can regenerate like the X-man Wolverine? Professor Scott White gives more details about how his group creates a regenerating plastic that can heal damage as large as a bullet hole.
White is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a member of the Autonomous Materials Systems group at the Beckman Institute f... More Information →

Professor Scott White discusses the research breakthrough that allows plastic to not only heal, but truly regenerate.
Self-healing materials have been around for about a decade. But they have never been able to heal damage much larger than the width of a human hair. But now, White and his colleagues Jeff Moore and Nancy Sottos have developed plastic that can regenerate... More Information →

Cognitive neuroscientist Kyle Mathewson explains the role alpha waves play in our brains and discusses how portable EEG brain monitors may become an integral part of our daily lives.
Mathewson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More Information →

Psychologist Kirk Erickson discusses how physical exercise can not only reshape our bodies, but also our brains.
Erickson attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for his Ph.D. in psychology and worked at the Beckman Institute as a graduate student and postdoc from 2005-2008. He now works as a psychology professor at the University of Pittsburgh and was aw... More Information →